Room-cooling apparatus.



G. J. STODDARD.

1 ROOM COOLING APPARATUS.

121 1110111011 211 315 NOVIS, 1911.

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CARLTON J'. STGDIDARD, 01' SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

RUGM-CUGLING APPARATUS.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 23, 1912.

Application filed November 6, 1911. Serial No. 658,886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Chamois J. S'roo mine, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and Stateof Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Room-Cooling Apparatus, of which the following 'is a specification.

My invention relates to apparatuses for lowering the temperature ofrooms during the heated season.

l have aimed to provide a simple and eflicient device of a portablenature, which may be placed in any room wherein it is desirable to lowerthe temperature, that will not only cool the room but will bring'intothe room pure air from the outside and produce a retreshing circulationof the air within the room, so much desired in sick rooms during theheated season. v

I have further aimed to provide an apparatus that will have theappearance of an.

article of furniture and in which the passage of air through the samemay be varled and regulated to secure the temperature desired.

The various uses to which my devicemay be applied is readily apparentand the form and features thereof maybe changed, within the scope of theclaim, without departing from the spirit of my invention.

With these objects in View the invention includes the novel constructionand arrangement of parts hereinafter described and particularly set outin the claim.

My lnvention is illustrated in the accompanymg drawings in wlnch similarletters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation with part of the intake pipe cut away. Fig.2 is a sectional view on line 00 a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a transversevertical section on line y 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. at is alongitudinalvertical section with the door open and turned back. Fig. 5is a side elevation of one of-the end rests for thedrain boards.

Au outer casing 1.,pr eferably built of wood and made to resemble anarticle of furniture, has a lining or inner casing 2 spaced therefrom.The space between the two, except the cover or top, isfilled with anon-com ductor'of heat 3, preferably charcoal, al-- though any goodnon-conductor of heat may be used. In one end and at the bottom istitted a door t, for convenience in cleaning and removin in water tanktl nthesides center drain 8, which drain has lateral inchnations to themiddle and longitudinal n1- clination toward one end wherein is provideda drain pipe 9. Adjacent the lower edge of each of said deflectors 6 islongitudinally placed-two, sills 10 which are sup: ported by theuprights 11. Upon said sills 10 rest the cross ties 12 upon which cakesof ice 13 are placed. This manner of supporting the ice allows free aircirculation around the ice. At each end of said inner casing 2 issecured the rests 01' supports 14 which are inclined toward the middle,where upwardly extended lugs 15 are provided. Upon said rests 14 areplaced the drain boards 7 with one edge of each against thedefiector 6adjacent. The said drain boards are spaced apart by the said lugs 15.Said drain boards not only act as drains for the water from the meltingice, but also as deflectors for the air currents from around the ice.Below the longitudinally inclined drain 8 is placed the water tank 5,which may have secured thereto a faucet 17 for drawing 0d the water orwhich may have a detachable connection 16 fitted in the cover in orderto detach said tank from the drain pipe 9 and remove the tank fromwithin the casing 1, through the door 4 which is made close fitting.

the sides of said casing 1, packing uer casing 2, are provided ingressand egress openings. The ingress openings 1.9 are placed near the top ofsaid casings and have fitted therein the intake pipes 20 which areconnected with a main intake pipe 21, that leads from without the ropm.Each side of 3 and inthe device has its respective ingress and egressopenings. The egress openings 22 are placed at the bottom of the innercasing 2 in order that there may be complete circu lation of air and nodead air spaces.

In using my apparatus I place cakes of ice 13 upon the cross ties andwith the ingress pipes open, air will enter the device through theingress openings 19. This air being warmer than the. air insaid device,will be directed by the deflectors 6 to the upper portion of the spacewithin the device, as shown by the arrows. This warm air coming indirect contact .with the ice, will be chilled or cooled and will falland the warm air will be drawn downward and be- Through tween the spacedapart drain boards 7, where it is again deflected by the drain 8 and outthrough the egress openings 22 into the room. The continued movement ofair through the ingress openings 19 and out through the egressopenings-22 will cause a circulation of air through the device and as itpasses over and around the ice, it will be cooled. The temperature ofthe room may he kept'as desired by a partial closing of the ingressopenings. If they should all be closed as well as the egress openingsand the top tightly closed the circulation or air currents will beupward between the deflectors G and theinner casing, and down throughthe ice until the air Within the device is all of the same temperatureand the ice may be kept for considerable time without melting.

"Having thus described my invention I desire to secure by Letters Patentand' A room cooling apparatus consisting of a casing having the Wallsthereof spaced apart and said space filled With nonheatconductingmaterial vertically placed deflector sheets, spaced from the sides ofsaid casing and extending from near the top .to practically the middleof each side, ice supporting means in the upper portion of said casingadjacent the bottom of said deflector sheets, longitudinall placed andlaterally inclined drain boar s spaced apart and seconnected with saidingress pipeand leading to the outside of the room, and a plurality ofegress openings at the bottom of said casing;

In testimony whereof Ihave afiixed my signature in presence of tWoWitnesses.

CARLTON J. STODDARD.

lVitnesses J OHN A; DE VALLEY, BEN L. ConUM.

